Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Sainte-Foi, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 359) : inscription par arrêté du 11 décembre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/12/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Later work
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Foi
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.12539, 1.91667
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135438
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "19 Carcassonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A l'origine, chapelle castrale de la maison forte voisine. La chapelle est un modeste édifice d'époque romane, à nef unique. Elle a conservé un caractère très authentique. Dans le choeur, on a découvert des peintures murales représentant des personnages bibliques, probablement des 14e ou 15e siècles.
English translation
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History
Originally, castle chapel of the neighbouring strong house. The chapel is a modest building of Romanesque period, with a single nave. It has retained a very authentic character. In the choir, murals were discovered representing biblical figures, probably from the 14th or 15th centuries.
Nearby in the register
- Restes de l'église Saint-Julien et Sainte-Basilisse de l'Espinouxégliseunder 1 mi
- Ruines du château dit de Terridechâteau3 mi
- Fontaine des Cordeliersfontaine3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.